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Words of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I

We are confident that the co-operation of the Organisation with Our Government will grow and become even more fruitful in the years that lie ahead.

Ancient Testimony

“Ancient Testimony ” is a series of interviews and testimonies from Rastafari Ancients. The aim of this project is to facilitate the spreading of the elders' teachings and at the same time invite the public to directly help and support these pioneers of the Movement.

London's original African family adventure! With live music, cinema, dance, games, workshops and the best of vibes... Each month Mwalimu Express features a different live act with African connections, DJ Sets from Rita Ray and Max Reinhardt, African cinema with introduction and Q&A’s led by Andy Jones of Screen Station. Lucy Angell John’s dance session for kids lasts all afternoon along with the Oware Society’s non stop playing of the oldest board game in the world, Oware as played in Ghana. Stalls from Open the Gate The African Market Corner.
People talk, dance, clap, cheer, drink, eat, and share a celebration of African culture.

Afrikult.’s three-part event series Words that Travel aims to showcase the wonderful and rich diversity within the African literary genre. Each event focused on particular mediums and traditions of African literature. Back again with our final instalment to the Words that Travel series, think you can guess what’s brewing in our creative pot? Didn’t think so. Word that Travel: Rhythms of Literature captures the synergy between literature and music - the sounds behind words, the words in sounds.

The all-day event will include an African Food Court, Publishers' Market, Performances, Open Lit Space and a LIVE music concert.

A celebratory evening of discussion, poetry, and lectures by three esteemed, original thinkers. Miguel Cullen, whose poetry has been described as "arresting, streetsmart ventriloquism" (TLS), will lead the evening. Speakers will include both journalist Ian Thomson, author of the controversial The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica (praised by both Benjamin Zephaniah and Zadie Smith), and Colin Grant, author of books about Marcus Garvey (Negro With A Hat), Bob Marley and The Wailers (I and I The Natural Mystics), and a highly acclaimed autobiographical work exploring Black British identity in the 1970s (Bageye at the Wheel). Discussion will be rich and free flowing.

Followed by music. Float downstream on a mix of poetry, travelogue, history to beat back those January shivers.

"This exciting exhibition at Fairfield House is produced by Dr Peter Kellett, an architect and social anthropologist, and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Newcastle University. In 2013 he was based at Addis Ababa University Ethiopia for 8 months, and whilst there brought together this body of work. The exhibition consists of large numbers of everyday objects collected with the help of Ethiopian colleagues. They will be displayed as multiples and in creative, colourful juxtaposition with each other.

"Black Cultural Archives will host an outdoor tribute screening on Sunday 9th April 2017, in honour of campaigner for Black rights and leading anti-racist activist, Darcus Howe (1943-2017). We invite the community to come together to honour the work and life of the formidable Darcus Howe."

The House on Coco Road is an intimate portrait of an activist and teacher who moves her children from Oakland, California to participate in the Grenada Revolution only to find her family caught up in a U.S. military invasion.

Director Damani Baker (Still Bill, 2009) draws poignant connections between the civil rights struggles in the US, socialist revolutions in the Caribbean and liberation struggles on the African continent. Seamlessly weaving between the grand narratives of pan-Africanism and anti-imperialism and touching personal insights, THE HOUSE ON COCO ROAD successfully captures a pivotal moment in African-diaspora history; encouraging us all to apply history's lessons to the situations we face today.

"The Africa Centre is back with its vibrant SUMMER FESTIVAL at its new home on Great Suffolk Street in Southwark. The AFRICA CENTRE SUMMER FESTIVAL will take over the street bringing together some great talent from across the African & Caribbean diaspora and amasing artists from all parts of Africa. 3 live music stages. Kids & family activities. The African Market. African Street Food. So come down to South London where the heat is on!"

Sound system culture in the UK has played a vital part in UK music history. Since 1954 when Duke Vincent Forbes set up his home made system and started playing Ska and Calypso numbers at chest shaking volume, British sound system music has remained at the forefront of mainstream music culture.

This one-day celebration in the heart of Hackney will showcase the evolution of Caribbean sound systems culture into mainstream culture, showcasing music, film, photography and discussion.

· Panel discussion and Q&A: Exploring the journey of sound system culture and its impact.

· Sound System set up: A visual interactive experience of a sound system being set up.

· Music: DJ sets taking you though a journey of sound system music and the sub genres it has influenced – Dub through to Grime.

· Film – Guerrilla film screening of the Black British cult classic movie, Babylon.

Line Up:

Jah Youth Roots Ambassador

Jamie Rodigan & Daniel Shotz

Jah Wanda (Conscious FM)

Gaza Strip (NTS)

Sister Joseph

Steve Vibration Lab (Reggae Roast)

Inner Gold (Beat FM)

Urgent Sound Union

Yesuf Top Ranking

Hosted by RTKAL

Sound Man is produced by Rockers International www.rockersinternational.com Contact: rockershifiuk@gmail.com

Sound Man is Supported By HCD, LBH, GS2 and in partnership with NTS, Kaffa Coffee, Community HiFI, Reggae Roast and Top Rankin’

"BASS2017 will celebrate the Anniversary of the coronation of HIM Emperor Haile Selassie I with an exclusive Birmingham premier screening of critically acclaimed film 'Shashamane' and music legend Damian Marley's 'Stony Hill to Addis'.

Nearly 8,000 miles separate Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, and Kingston, Jamaica, but a link between them was forged by a number of Jamaicans who believe His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie's (Ras Tafari's) coronation was the fulfillment of a prophecy and that he was their redeemer, the messiah written of in the Bible’s Book of Revelation: “King of Kings, Lord of lords”. They believed he would arrange for a deliverance, which, as they saw it, involved a miraculous transformation. They would move from their lives in the Caribbean and relocate to Africa, the land of their ancestors and their spiritual epicentre."